When my grandfather decided to come to Pakistan at the behest of a sitting minister in 1948 despite being the chief engineer for 7 states and having a plethora of properties and wealth in our native area, our relative who decided to stay back did try to convince him not to go to Pakistan but he came anyways.
Family still keeps in touch despite being in two different countries our cousin used to make fun of us till few years back by labeling us backward, dictator/army run country with lot of polarization, this was true with Indian Muslims abroad during my education and during my professional life. But now my father was telling me that those in east Punjab and elsewhere regret the decision of not coming to Pakistan.
People do think about the rise of RSS as something new but it has been over 200 years in the making, ever since BalaJee decided not to meet Aurangzeb there has been a constant propaganda against muslim and propelling Indians in the new extremist version of vedic religion.
I have no idea why Pakistan and India always have a negative correlation, in the 80 and earlier when Pakistan had a decent GDP growth rate, India was marred by "Hindu Growth rate" on the other hand Pakistan started it journey of polarization/false islamization/discrimination and dictatorship India was united as the largest democracy in the world even nationalist like me drew motivation from many things india. India and Indians were proud of their diversity.
Now we are coming out of polarization era and moving fast towards moderate democratic nation, stability, signs of improving exports and economy are already there and India is moving in the exact opposite direction. The economy is already ailing, polarization and radicalization is the name of the game and I really feel sorry about it.
For people like you I feel sorry twice born and raised in India, moderate face of India and yet coming to a state where the nationality is at stake. Very sad.
No empire/no kingdom no country can keep its geographical integrity by marginalizing a large portion of its population, this is the lesson from history. The direction India is heading I already shudder when I extrapolate the consequences.
@Mangus Ortus Novem ,
@jamahir
True, unfortunately the way TTP and its fellow terrorist in the guise of mullahs as well became the public face of Pakistan internationally despite being a tiny fraction of Pakistani population, majority of Pakistanis despised these people but the world at large used to see us from the same lens.
RSS in the TT.India albeit being hindu, if it continues this way unfortunately saner hindus too will be branded the way majority of Pakistanis were in the near past.
